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Hehe, the sunrise happened 30 minutes after I went to bed (to sleep ;-)) :-) Scotland has amazingly short nights in the summer. There's even a kind of light quality about the night even at 1 or 2am :-)

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I reckon that in mid summer we get about 2.5 hours more daylight in Edinburgh than in Washington DC. Northern Scotland and the Northern Isles would get even more daylight hours than Edinburgh. The night is only around 6.5 hours long here on mid summer's night compared with Washington's 9 hours :-)

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Oh, but the internet is a marvellous source of information, although I have to say that there's nothing more satisfying than pottering around a library or book shop. . .one of my favourite pastimes. Waterstones is a large chain bookstore here. The one in Princes Street, Edinburgh has a Starbucks in it. . .now what could be better than that? ;-)

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Oh, ok then. Life does get better than that. But that's one of the better things along with paddling in a cool stream, walking on a deserted beach, climbing to the top of a hill on a glorious day and seeing clear across the county, eating in a good seafood/Italian/chinese/mexican restaurant with friends, sitting by the roaring log fire in mid winter in an English Olde Worlde pub, snuggling on the sofa with a loved one watching Casablanca, scoffing a box a chocolates, having snowball fights and making snowmen and *whispers. . . erm. . .sex* ;-)Sings. .o/~ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens o/~

*grins* I first saw <i>The Sound of Music</i> on my 16th birthday. My boyfriend of the time was a mature and very gentlemanly 21 year old called Martin. He bought me a <font size="3"<b>HUGE</b></font> box of my favourite chocolates (Black Magic) and took me off in his little car to see the movie :-) Sadly, Martin was drowned in a canoeing accident a couple of years later :-( Isn't it strange how conversations lead to memories sometimes?

even the dawgs

heh! "my" dog, peanut (belongs to jenn but she abandoned her and went off to college) is a poodle--supposedly a water critter--but she hates to go out in the rain; rainy days she just stays curled up, i'm sure she has her legs crossed 'cause she often doesn't go out to take her morning leak till almost noon--whoo!